Following Norfolk State's crushing loss to North Carolina Central after a botched victory formation call, Shannon Sharpe and Bomani Jones have weighed in on their respective platforms and believe that Vick should clean house. Both Sharpe and Jones are HBCU alumni: Sharpe graduated from Savannah State, and Jones graduated from Clark Atlanta.
On Saturday's edition of Nightcap, Sharpe started with a hypothetical, asking his co-hosts what would happen if a coordinator or quarterback ignored a head coach’s call for victory formation.
“And y’all talk about Shannon coaching. I want you to tell me, Joe. I want you, Ocho, I want you to tell me. I called victory formation, and somebody, your coordinator or the quarterback, goes rogue. Tell me what you think gonna happen.”
He said an offensive coordinator who called the play would be fired on the spot.
“Oh, he fired. I would fire him right on the sideline.”
When Joe Johnson pointed out that the quarterback made a mistake, Sharpe said the player would be cut and defended the harsh stance.
“I didn’t make one when I cut him. I didn’t make no mistake. That was intentional. I don’t know what happened, but sometimes, Joe, as the old people in the South say, you gotta let the hair go with the hide. Sometimes you throw the baby out with the bath water. Everybody that’s involved gotta go.”
On Monday's edition of The Right Time, Bomani Jones said that anyone who disregards a call that the game is over doesn’t belong on the staff.
Article Continues Below“If I say the game is over, and you say, ‘No, it’s not,’ you can’t work here anymore.”
Jones then criticized Vick’s response and said whoever made the call must face consequences, even in public.
“Vick did something I really normally don’t like, which is, ‘Hey, don’t look at me.’ Hey, man, if you said on the headset, ‘Get in victory formation,’ and somebody called a play and you lost the game, if that is a player, he cannot play for you anymore, and if that was a coach, not only must you fire him, you must fire him in front of everybody. Whoever that was, that’s somebody that can’t work here anymore. If I say, ‘The game is over,’ and you say, ‘No, it’s not,’ you can’t work here anymore.”